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The US, especially, missed opportunities to integrate both countries into a single world system, by rebuffing reforms of the International Monetary Fund that would have strengthened China’s decision-making influence, and by blocking Russia’s overtures for NATO membership.
The problem is that more than half of such spending is on education, science and technology, and infrastructure – the areas that Obama had just argued should be strengthened.
But should we allow our judgment of what is a crime to be determined by feelings of repugnance that may have strengthened the evolutionary fitness of ancestors who lacked effective contraception?
Yet, increased participation in the world economy resulting from lower trade barriers will only be possible if Africa's regional institutions are strengthened.
The last-minute agreement to raise the US debt ceiling and reopen the government has left Republican Party extremists in a weakened position, while President Barack Obama has emerged strengthened.
As the proponents of Asian values argued, all human rights - civil and political as well as social and economic - need to be strengthened.
The episode greatly strengthened anti-Americanism in Europe.
When the dollar strengthened at the end of the 1960s and in the mid-1980s, American industry felt threatened by foreign imports and pressed for changes in the trading regime.
Hamas believes that if Israel were to come under pressure and, for example, freeze settlement construction, Abbas’s position would be strengthened.
Central and Eastern Europe is the example worth studying closely: in tandem with Germany, these countries developed and strengthened high-value-added industrial sectors.
Should Lukashenko’s regime falter, the democratic opposition could be strengthened by the promise of EU support.
The case for enforcing copyright laws was strengthened by the details that emerged following the arrest in New Zealand last month of Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz), founder of the Web site Megaupload (now closed down by the FBI).
A key component of that mission is the Pacific Pathways program, which involves “joining multinational partners to conduct a series of military exercises intended to increase Army readiness through additional training and strengthened partner-force relationships.”
And, through our training in Hawaii and Malaysia, we have strengthened our capacity to fight in a jungle environment.
The samples will then be sent for analysis to strengthened local labs and reference centers to provide a more accurate and complete picture of all causes of death.
That, in turn, strengthened its two-fold belief – that its brand of state-steered capitalism offers a credible alternative, and that its global ascendance is inevitable.
With capital pouring into the US, the dollar strengthened to levels not seen for some 13 years.
That has inevitably strengthened the hands of those who argue that more power requires more accountability.
The resulting capital inflows have strengthened the currency.
Moreover, checks and balances, though still inadequate, have been strengthened in recent years.
Rather than breaking popular morale in London, Berlin, Tokyo, or Hanoi, it usually strengthened it.
Or will Mexico’s strengthened democratic institutions and civil society keep the country moving forward?
The estimated 10,000 deaths over the last 18 months equal the number killed in just a few days in 1982 in the city of Hama by Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad, whose scorched-earth policy strengthened his hold on power and incurred only rhetorical condemnation from the international community.
Contrary to many predictions, the eurozone did not inevitably collapse; rather, it was undeniably bolstered by a response that improved oversight, strengthened institutions, and pooled resources.
International economic policy coordination should be significantly strengthened in order to deal effectively with changes on such a scale.
The financial sector requires tougher regulation, strengthened supervision, and internationally consistent resolution mechanisms to address the problems posed by very large, global institutions that are considered too big (or too complex) to fail.
If they are strengthened in the months ahead – to increase demand, fix the banking system, and stop the fall in house prices – we can hope to see a sustained recovery start in 2010.
Chile’s excellent economic performance has been the result of the free-market policies introduced during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet but confirmed and strengthened by democratically elected governments over the 25 years since he left office.
The Security Council resolution presupposes – in addition to separating the combatants – the enforcement of the internal and external sovereignty of Lebanon’s elected government of Lebanon, without saying how this is to be accomplished with a politically strengthened Hezbollah, militarily superior to the Lebanese forces.
President Barack Obama’s first visit to China last November, in which he accepted the role of pliant suitor at the court of the emperor, strengthened the impression of a deal between today’s great power and tomorrow’s.
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